The Awakening

The Awakening was a very interesting book. Even though I thought the opposite in the begging when I first went to and got the book. I was really amazed at the way the author Kate Chopin describes the role of women during the time the book was written. I love the way the author expresses Edna Pontellier’s desire and achievement of self ownership and her husband’s ownership over her. There are a number of points stressed by Chopin that I found to be very interesting and correct.
Kate Chopin's The Awakening tells the story of Edna Pontellier, a Southern wife and mother. At the time this novel was published, women did as they were expected by society. They were expected to be good daughters, good wives, and good mothers. A woman was expected to move from the protection of her father's roof to the protection of her husband. Edna did not fit this mold, and that eventually leads her husband to send for a doctor. When her husband does this Edna Pontellier says words, which define Th...